Thursday, January 25, 2007

Lovecraft's Legacy: 1979

This rare ephemera has a few interesting historical points 42 years after Lovecraft's death.


FANTASY MONGERS, (ed. Paul Ganley): Fantasy Mongers #1. Weirdbook Press: NY. 1979. First edition. Stapled wraps. A separate small-press fantasy magazine from the editor of Weirdbook, mostly issued as a place for genre booksellers to sell (or at least advertise) their books - this 32 page first issue does include both front and back cover artwork by J. K. Potter, an interview with Robert Bloch, and a short Lovecraftian piece by L. Sprague de Camp ("H. P. Lovecraft And Edmund Wilson"). The item shown is declared to be in NF/Fine copy.

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